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Excellent HD TV with some great added features

The Samsung LE40C650 is a 40 inch full HD, LCD TV. The TV is black with a rose tint colour and sits on a black base and can swivel left and right. It also comes with the ability to be wall mounted. On the stand the TV takes up an area of roughly 100cm wide by about 70cm high and a depth of 30cm. The screen resolution is 1920x1080 and uses a Hyper Real Engine to enhance the picture quality. The sound output comes from two down firing 10w speakers and uses Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Pulse and SRS Theatre Sound. It comes with all the usual connections as well as an internet port, 4 HDMI connections, PC in and two USB ports. It has all the main features such as a timer and teletext but many other ones like a digital noise filter, WiFi adapter support and Internet@TV. It also has in built Freeview.

All these technical specifications come together to give you an awe inspiring TV watching experience. The picture quality is of the highest order but when used in conjunction with a dedicated HD channel in manages to step up another couple of notches. Sports and movies come to life right in front of your eyes giving a magical experience for the whole family. The picture quality is excellent whatever angle you view the TV from. I have linked my TV to a Blu-ray player and additional speakers but even without these the sound is excellent, even at high volumes.

The internet feature is very useful especially if you already have a wireless network at home. Although the amount of apps available is still relatively small there are some useful ones, especially BBC iPlayer for the little ones. You can also connect your TV with your PC or mobile to share pictures and videos.

Fortunately for me this TV fitted in the same area my old one did, however even if you have to move other furniture around this 40inch TV doesn't appear to be very intrusive and will sit fairly flat against a wall, even when on the stand. I purchased mine for just under £800. As with most electrical goods I would suggest shopping around and using the internet to check prices before purchasing as there are always deals to get. The screen also appears very durable; I have had the TV for a year, as I often find a new set of handprints from my one year old when I haven't been looking!

The Samsung LE40C650 is a beautifully designed and well built HD TV. I would recommend it to anyone that enjoys their TV and especially if you have access to HD channels.

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An extremely good TV with outstanding picture quality

Ive owned this Samsung full HD 1080p 100hz LCD TV for several months now, purchased on the back of reading many a good review, I was a little behind the times still watching a 28" CRT TV, and can honestly say Ive been missing out on picture quality.

The TV has a great build quality it has a glass look perspex framed screen which has a slight rose tint to it and this sits on a sturdy glass stand which allows the TV to swivel left and right. The back of the TV unlike most TV's is metal giving it more of an expensive look. I believe two additional models of the TV come with different tint on the Perspex - but its hardly noticeable unless the wall behind the set is white.

Tv size - This has the 40 inch screen, height with the stand of 66cm, and width of 98cm and a depth of 8cm.

The TV has a vast amount of settings more than any other TV Ive seen,this allows you to set the TV up the way you want, but to be honest only a few minor changes are needed from the factory setting s to get a good setup. The TV plays various formats, from a USB stick which is great and certainly not as fussy over formats as other Tv's or DVD players are, so easy enough to watch any downloaded content. Internet TV is also very easy to set up - especially via an Ethernet cable which is probably the best way to connect it up. You can download additional Samsung apps and it comes with BBC iplayer which works without problems and streams BBC iplayer HD on a 3mbs broadband connection fine. Other apps include youtube, facebook and twitter, film apps, games etc, but currently no 4 or 5 on demand which would be a bonus.

Picture quality is superb almost as good as some LED sets, I viewed the TV side by side with a range of other TVs in a popular electrical retailer and it was easily the best image with very strong blacks and colour depth. HD images are very good and so definitely worth using the TV to its full capacity. Sound quality is also great and some preset sound settings give good options, I have the TV set at level 6 which seems to be only 5% of the volume dial that pops up on screen, so no issues with volume. Touch sensitive controls are located on the bottom right of TV the only downside is they don't light up so can be difficult to see what they are. This generally isn't an issue as most people use the remote or an alternative remote like sky to control the set. The TV remote is backlit (the feature can be turned off and on).

I paid £475 for the TV whilst on an offer but the price has risen as less availability, but its easily worth £700. The TV itself never turns off completely and goes into standby with a very low power consumption, if this is a real issue you could always purchase one of those special power sockets that turns the power off completely. The TV does have energy saving features and a light sensor which automatically detects the room brightness and adjusts the TV accordingly.

A few complaints regarding motion lag when playing games, I don't use the set for this but the TV does have a game mode to reduce the lag time, I guess it depends what important in a set. To me picture quality and features are higher on my list of requirements.

It has freeview HD - not a feature I use as I have Sky but important none the less.